I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife, a reading by Rita Roberts
Hampton Room 1030 Columbia Ave, ClaremontProfessor Roberts will be reading from her latest book, I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife. In this stirring curatorial achievement, a scholar compiles letters exchanged among African Americans as the Civil War blasted away the scaffolding of bondage, hinting at an uncertain future. In 1861, a Virginia slave, John Washington, proposed marriage to […]